Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 2 | She said , with a flippancy she did not feel , ‘ Are you thinking in terms of hours , perhaps ? |
| 3 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |
| 4 | Whether Ursula shared her growing sense of foreboding she did not know . |
| 5 | Though it 's a wonder she did not spot the writing on the wall . |
| 6 | But Mrs Gandhi never forgave Khan 's opposition to her scrapping the privy purses , and to his regret she did not make him a minister . |
| 7 | Rachaela thought that the mistake her own mother had made was in her brainwashed attempts to care for and become involved with a child she did not want . |
| 8 | What a pity she did not discover that all she needed in the first place to remove the ‘ writer 's cramp ’ was to rest her right elbow on the table when writing instead of letting it hang over the edge without support ! |
| 9 | But it 's a pity she did not have a better showcase for her talents . |
| 10 | She closed the door with a firmness she did not feel then sank gratefully on to her bed , dry-mouthed and suddenly cold . |
| 11 | Julia closed her eyes , partly because that was a question she did not want to answer and partly because she thought it might help to stop her flinging her arms around his neck and saying , kiss me , oh please kiss me . |
| 12 | Caterina judged then , as she watched Rosa pin her hair , that the ease with which she , Caterina , won applause — when she danced and sang the cherry song , or strewed flowers before the host in the procession , making a little reverence to the monstrance on every third step backwards — was undeserved , the effect of some trick she did not want to perform but that came to her naturally from some evil in her , the same evil that had inspired her bad thoughts of Tommaso and prevented her doing as her sister , her beloved sister , wanted . |
| 13 | She continues to say that there is one kind she does not like and that she is going to convey what it is by a process of thought transfer . |
| 14 | She thought often of his words , but in her heart she did not believe them . |
| 15 | Besides I see Tracey at the weekends so we can talk about that ’ , The bit she did not like was writing it up . |
| 16 | As she had said the pot was a present she did not stop the woman gift-wrapping it in lavish style . |
| 17 | But as a pensioner she did not think much of his performance in the Commons yesterday . |
| 18 | Of course she did not believe a word Sean O'Farrell was saying . |
| 19 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 20 | In any case she did not know what it was to be and took refuge in the business of drawing the cups and the teapot towards her . |
| 21 | At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her . |
| 22 | At this moment she did not believe in tragedies ; she had just averted one . |
| 23 | For a moment she did not hear the voices around her . |
| 24 | Her game was to pretend a confidence she did not feel . |
| 25 | ‘ by no means , ’ she said , with a confidence she did not feel . |
| 26 | Certainly she presented me with my medal for the 100 metres and as I stood on the plinth she did not bat an eyelid . |
| 27 | The kiss had been such a butterfly of a thing that she did not reject it , and when he bent and kissed her cheek she did not reject that either . |
| 28 | Jaqueline had retired from her job early to care for her 69-year-old mother with senile dementia , and was outraged to find that because she had a husband she did not qualify for the invalid care allowance . |
| 29 | He blamed himself for crediting her with a maturity she did not possess , and regretted that his attempts to assist her studies had been so tragically misinterpreted by her . |
| 30 | She lied to Dr Wyn , saying that she had wrenched her shoulder , since although there was nothing inherently shameful about noises in the head she did not wish to confide in him . |